As of today, Kubernetes version 1.12 is deprecated in EKS, and will no longer be supported on May 11th, 2020. On this day, you will no longer be able to create new 1.12 clusters and all EKS clusters running Kubernetes version 1.12 will be updated to the latest available platform version of Kubernetes version 1.13.
Summary
The script
cncfekscluster.sh
https://github.com/cncf/devstats-helm-example/blob/d9481665693eced90801e3b2e0e12083cd2c3970/scripts/cncfekscluster.sh uses a deprecated version of Amazon's EKS service,v1.12
Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.15
Action Item
v1.15
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